Metaxas should go back to writing fairy tales for children and stick with that. Anybody who takes his nonsense about religion and science seriously should Google puddle theory and read what Douglas Adams had to say about the puddle of water who intuitively just knew that the hole he was in was designed exactly for him, to fit him perfectly, and to fit only him, when, in reality, water, of which the puddle consists, simply fills whatever hole it happens to be in.
In the very same sense that the puddle had things backwards, all this nonsense put forth by many and regurgitated by Metaxas about how the universe is fine-tuned for life is precisely backwards. Life fine-tunes itself to its environment.
Any competent chemist or molecular biologist will tell you that it is very feasible for life just to happen where conditions allow it (Google abiogenesis), and then it continually adapts to changing conditions. And there are forms of life that exist in very extreme conditions on this very planet, conditions that scientists thought just a short time ago were completely inhospitable to life. Also, there is no reason to believe that our carbon-based form of life is the only possible form.
Add all that to the vastness of the universe and the likelihood that there are other planets just as hospitable as this one, and thus it is highly likely that we are not the only "intelligent" life form in the universe.
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